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Cath Senker – author, editor, teacher

Publishing

With 30 years’ experience in publishing, I have written more than 160 books for children of all ages, from history, biography, global and social issues to world religions, human geography and environmental topics. I also write for adults – see Stranded in the Six-Day War below.

Far From Home

In December 2018, Far From Home, Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution and Poverty won the 2018 Educational Writers’ Award.  The paperback edition was published in March 2019.

Editing

I undertake project management of books for children and adults as well as editorial work on educational and craft books; children’s fiction and non-fiction educational and trade titles; academic reports and online materials.

Teaching

I am a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, running writing development workshops for undergraduate and Masters students. In May 2018, I was appointed by the University of Sussex as a part-time Academic Skills Consultant. I also teach English to migrants and refugees.

Stranded in the Six-Day War

This is a brilliantly researched and written account of an almost forgotten incident in the 1967 Middle East war. It’s full of tasty nuggets of detail. The war stranded ships that were passing through the Suez Canal, and created a unique community of marooned seafarers. Recommended.

Jeremy Bowen, August 2017 (BBC Middle East editor and author of Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East)

Please scroll down for further reviews.

eBook

The eBook is available for £3.00. Please email me if you would like a copy.

Paperback

You can buy the paperback:

1 (UK only) By posting a cheque for £12.50 incl P&P payable to Ms C R Senker with your name and address to:
4th Floor, 60 Lansdowne Place
Hove BN3 1FG, East Sussex

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John Goble

One of the benefits of being an historian is the opportunity to tell the stories of those on the margin of events who are usually ignored and forgotten and give them a place in the larger picture. Cath Senker has performed this service magnificently. The fact that fourteen merchant ships were trapped in the Suez Canal between June 1967 and June 1975 seemed destined to be just a footnote in the histories of this most intractable of conflicts but the author has rescued a collection of unpublished material and other ephemera and given it some permanence. (former seafarer, June 2018)

Gerrie Purcell

This book is a wonderful account of merchant seafarers’ cooperation and formation of a community despite the national and political divides of the Cold War; all while the major players in the Cold War used the Israeli/Palestinian/Arab conflict as a football in their ideological/ political ‘game’. A timely addition to your background reading if interested in the on-going problems for all concerned in the Middle East. (April 2018)